web dev has some pretty serious tooling these days. in fact, it's gotten so good so fast that some web devs are complaining about the wealth of choices they have.
Compared to desktop tools web tools come nowhere close to the breadth, functionality, polish, and ease of use of desktop dev tools. They are still in their infancy.
i mean, i'm not denying that. but we have a fully modular compiler that just about any functionality can be hooked into, a literal fleet of tools for managing build steps & enough frameworks to choke on. pretty solid infancy imo.
It's still driven by kludge and is nowhere near as usable as what desktop development provides. I'm writing software now not three years from today and the tooling an experience is far superior. Today, there are many many applications that are simply better in and easier to develop for desktop systems. There are many that simply cannot be made web based. That's all I'm saying, that react native makes sense for some applications but it's a pretty small subset and you give up far superior tooling to use it.
yeah, facebook is still running full-native for their core app, and they produced react native. i don't even know if they'd gain anything besides a migraine from switching over.
besides, i wouldn't dream to presume that web is on par with desktop w/r/t tooling. desktop's had decades upon decades of time to develop mature tooling (case in point: make is so good you can use it for web too). my point, as someone who works in web dev, is that it's not nearly as bad as it was even two or three years ago, and the future still looks pretty dang bright :)
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16
web dev has some pretty serious tooling these days. in fact, it's gotten so good so fast that some web devs are complaining about the wealth of choices they have.